HARVEY HARRIS

Harvey Harris was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1915. His childhood art lessons led him to the Hartford Art School. There, he found admiration for the works of Benton, and, upon meeting Benton at his home in Kansas City in the late 1930s, was enrolled by the old artist in the Kansas City Institute of Art. Like many artists of his time, Harris was drafted into the Armed Forces during the 1940s. However, he was discharged because of poor eyesight and soon married. He and his bride moved to New Haven, where he received MFA and DFA from Yale University. He would later move to Baton Rouge in 1967 and was a Professor of Art at Louisiana State University until his retirement in 1982.